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I\u2019d been planning to put up a post tonight about some meatballs that June has been into lately (MEAT! MEAT! <\/i>she yells; I think you can imagine it). They\u2019re delicious, served in broth with peas and grated Parmesan, ugly but molto<\/i> Italian. But then, possibly because it is June 1st, the sun came out and the day got hot, and meatballs felt very wrong. Instead, first thing this morning, I texted a friend to propose a late afternoon trip to the beach with a picnic dinner for our two babies, who are really now toddlers.<\/p>\n

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And then Brandon and I ran into a couple of new friends and their two children at the farmers\u2019 market, so I invited them, too. I am the least spontaneous person on Earth, so I had to mark the occasion. This post really could not be about meatballs. This is a post about the beach.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m from Oklahoma. Where I grew up, it is flat<\/i>. I have no idea what it\u2019s like to grow up near water, or islands, or mountains. Sometimes when we\u2019re at the beach, or even just driving around town, I think to myself, WHOA! June is from Seattle!<\/i> It sounds obvious, because it is, but I wonder how this place will shape her, what it will be like to grow up near the water, someplace where you can pick blackberries and catch your own Christmas Eve crab<\/a>, someplace way up north, way out at the edge of the country.<\/p>\n

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Being out on book tour was incredible – thrilling and invigorating and heady and thank you all(!) for coming out and being there(!) – and it was also the longest I\u2019ve been away from home in a couple of years. I\u2019ve always loved to travel, and to travel alone, and I still do. I knew June and Brandon were fine, helped along by grandparents and friends, and I didn\u2019t worry. I want her to have sturdy attachments to people who aren\u2019t her parents. Plus, it was good to have time to sort of live my pre-June life again. I liked that life a lot.<\/p>\n

But there was one big thing that I missed about having her around, and that\u2019s this: being with a young child forces you to be radically present<\/i>. You can\u2019t zone out, replaying this morning or planning for tomorrow, when you\u2019re at the beach with your kid, because while you\u2019re zoning out, she\u2019s going to put her sticky sandy hand in your friend\u2019s Tupperware of roasted asparagus. You\u2019ve got to stay there. You\u2019re on. I\u2019m glad for that, even if I\u2019m not very good at it. My friends got some extra texture with their asparagus tonight.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s good to be home.<\/p>\n

P.S. Hey, Kirkland, I’ll be at Parkplace Books<\/a>\u00a0this Tuesday night, June 3, at 7:00 pm. See you there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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